Docky sometimes makes incorrect associations between icons and windows

[Peterson Silva]

I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 with Gnome-Do 0.8 Alpha 3 from testers PPA. I have Do in docky mode, and there are three OpenOffice icons there - Writer, Calc and Impress - but when only Writer is open, all of the icons refer to Writer, as if Calc and Impress were installed. Then if I click on Calc icon, it won't open Calc, instead it'll minimize / restore Writer. This also happens when the application running is Calc or Impress.

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

This is because all of the openoffice apps have basically the same process name. The OpenOffice apps are really just different parts of the same application.

[Peterson Silva (petersonsilva)]

I'm not a coder but just a suggestion: AWN's code could be useful, since I don't remember having this issue with their dock =) Perhaps looking at their workaround for that...

[Chris (h-launchpad-chrisalfano-com)]

This problem effects Mozilla Prism applications as well. All my running Prism apps are shown under the one that's in my launcher side. If I remove the app from the launcher side, they all show up together under the generic Prism app on the task side.

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

I will be looking at this issue later this weekend. Hopefully we can at least get Open Office working right.

[Jonathan Austin (mailforwho)]

Wine and Winelib apps are also not working properly (I use Picasa and Spotify). Again, AWN got this right...

There are two problems - shall I report separate bugs?
1. Icons are just the 'Wine' icon
2. Picasa and Spotify have the same icon in the dock when opened

I have installed Google's Picasa for Linux binary so I think it is using Winelib not my own Wine - just in case that makes any difference

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

I would not compare Docky to AWN. it does not have the same behavior
because it is designed to be a much more stateless dock item. It
doesn't track processes or anything like that. Any matching it does is
"on the fly" and does not require seeing the application actually start
as AWN frequently does. So comparing the two is relatively useless to
the point of actually fixing the issue. Again I am working on this =)
Hopefully i can work out some of these "harder" applications this
weekend.

[Juan Simón (simonbcn)]

I also suffer this problem, this is very annoying.
For example: I open multiple folders in Nautilus, but I can access each of them I have to use ALT + TAB Docky because it is useless in these cases.
I think the priority for this bug should be higher.
Anyway, thanks for the work you do with Do. It is a great application.

[Juan Simón (simonbcn)]

Sorry, but the Google translator sometimes makes strange translations.
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For example: I open multiple folders in Nautilus, but I can't access each of them using Docky. I have to do this by pressing ALT + TAB.
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[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

Simon, use the mouse scroll over the icon

[Juan Simón (simonbcn)]

"Simon, use the mouse scroll over the icon" (Jason Smith)

Thanks for responding, but it doesn't works for me.

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

Get bzr version =)

[Juan Simón (simonbcn)]

Now correct, thanks!

[whalabi (whalabi)]

This happens for me with, interestingly, Netbeans IDE and Banshee.

Opening Netbeans results in 2 Netbeans icons in Do's dock. Icon #1 tries to start up another Netbeans, icon #2 controls the open Netbeans window.

When I then open up Banshee, icon #1 now controls the Banshee window (minimise/restore/etc), icon #2 still controls Netbeans.

[brianfactors (constitutional-texan)]

Ok, this bug is not a problem with Doky, it's a problem with the launchers.

Openoffice launches out of two applications in Ubuntu: soffice and ooffice. Running "ooffice" basically launches soffice. So, if you want, you can have all your Openoffice programs (Calc, Writer, Impress, etc.) launch from ooffice and then have a generic Openoffice.org icon that launches soffice.

To do this, you need to create a launcher on your desktop that launches this: "ooffice -<name of program>". For Example: "ooffice -writer" (without quotes). Then you can drag and drop into docky. That icon is a launcher only. Then you can create a launcher that is simply "soffice". This icon will work both as a launcher and to organize all your OpenOffice windows.

Hope this gives you some kind of solution.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Regarding the OO.org applications, this problem is fixed in 0.8.2.